In this episode of Rush to Reason, Dr. Scott Faulkner joins the discussion on Health and Wellness Wednesday to explore the world of biohacking and preventative medicine. Dive deep into the conversation as Dr. Faulkner shares his journey from traditional hospital settings to embracing functional medicine as a means to keep patients healthy. Alongside expert biohacker Jeremy Sova, they unravel the potential of biohacking to reshape our understanding of modern medicine. The episode tackles the pressing issues within the medical industry, highlighting the need for common sense and skepticism of entrenched practices. Dr. Faulkner and Jeremy discuss real-world applications
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Welcome, listeners. It’s Dr. Scott Faulkner on this Health and Wellness Wednesday with my good friend Jeremy Sova, expert biohacker. How are you doing, Jeremy? Doing very well.
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Experts still in training because it’s amazing how much this stuff just keeps coming and the more we learn.
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But it’s great to be back. Well, it’s like practicing medicine. That’s why we call it practicing, right? Because you never know it all. Right. So the world of biohacking, it’s so much in its infancy. Guys like you have been doing it for years. I’ve switched my entire practice. I left the hospital, the ICU, because I can be so much more effective on the front side, keeping people healthy. then, I mean, yes, saving lives is really cool. Don’t get me wrong. But if I can prevent somebody from going to the hospital.
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You’re saving the life. You’re just doing it on the front end. That’s right. Yeah, it’s amazing how I’m hearing all these nurse practitioners that are getting their functional medicine training and certificates. All of a sudden, it’s out there now that people know that this preventative, regenerative, functional, reverse aging, anti-aging longevity space is by far the wave of the future. Yeah.
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Yeah, and the cool thing is that we now have the studies. So we’re repurposing things. I thought about that this morning is, you know, the rapamycin to the world, the methylene blues. It’s not new. And as a doc in the hospital, traditional allopathic medicine, we were never taught about this stuff. Sure.
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Same with the hyperbaric oxygen chambers that are throughout the entire country just sitting idle. I mean, this stuff’s been around. We’re learning now that not only was it there and we know how to use it, we can prove it. The literature is there and the results are there for people like me.
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Yeah. And guys like me are starting to get really disheartened through the medical establishment because – I told you this before. Whenever I get the New England Journal, I mean, that was our Bible. I trained in Massachusetts right up the road from these guys, right, from the Brigham, guys from Harvard Medical School. In fact, the valedictorian of his class at Harvard, he was in my residency. Sweetest guy. Unfortunately, he got colon cancer when we were residents and he died.
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Oh, geez.
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But that was the classic example of somebody who was so brilliant, but yet he had no common sense.
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Right. And colon cancer is one of the easiest to find because you can see it with a camera. You know, it’s something that should be done at age 35, in my opinion.
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That’s real sad. Yeah, it really was. And Jordan, he was such a nice guy. But to see somebody in really Harvard has turned that way. Don’t know about Stanford. I try to avoid California like the plague. But people who think they’re really, really smart and they can take a test. I’ll give you that. You give them a test and they’ll ace it. But they can’t tie their shoelaces. They can’t see things that to me are common sense. It’s like, wait a second. Why are you giving somebody this toxic drug because the medical industrial complex told you to? Why don’t you use your brain and actually question it? And now that we know the New England Journal has been taken over by Big Pharma, They have editorial license to edit what gets published. They’re funding the researcher and they’re telling them, no, we don’t like your results. So how is that unbiased?
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The whole thing is one big machine that is rigged against what’s right because money and medicine are very, very important.
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Yeah, and ultra important to a lot of people, unfortunately. And so they’ll sell their mother for that almighty dollar.
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But it’s nice we got people like, Brian Johnson will even say myself, that are experimenting in our own bodies and putting the data out there to show what the truth really is. You mentioned rapamycin. So I just learned, personally, everybody’s different. And I’ve been on the full regimen of it now for the better part of seven months. It took about a year and a half to get there. And similar to a couple of the other docs and Peter Attia, for the first time last week, I got a mouth sore and a zit on my nose the day after I took my 6.6 milligram. And it was on week 11 of my 12-week regimen. So now I’m going to go to 10 weeks on, five weeks off, because for some reason, the immunoresponse from my body hit at week 11. So if you’re not measuring this stuff, you can’t manage it like we talk about. So all goes back to square one, which is figure out what’s going on in the body with the biomarkers, and then measure it every 90, 180, 360 days, and then turn the dials on your dashboard to make yourself younger and younger and younger.
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That’s exactly right. And we’ll do a deeper dive on that. Since we’re opening the show, normally I’m so used to we’re sitting up here on the 12th story of this big building off of Parker Road looking out at the front range. Well, we can’t see hardly across the street because of the snow. So I’m going to beg and plead everybody, please be cautious out there. The roads are slick. Coming over here, we saw a lot of people spun out. If you’re from California and Texas, be extra cautious because you’re not used to this. And even Coloradoans, you know, I’ve been in this stuff for 59 years now. This is our first snowfall. I’ve never seen it until in the November we finally get our first snowfall. This is unusual.
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December 2nd, really, right?
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Yeah, this is what our second one. The first one was a dusting a couple of days ago. This is the real first snowfall where it’s really sticking to the grass and the streets. And then you get that slush built up and you try to cross lanes and man, you can spin out quickly. So everybody, I’m urging you, caution. It is okay to drive in the right lane. If you’re impeding traffic, if you don’t know what you’re doing, please move to the right and allow those little faster cars the left lane. Just be cautious out there. This is the beginning of December, so this is the beginning of the Advent calendar. For those of us that believe in Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, I want you guys just to take a deep breath, right? And because there’s so much information, so much stuff that comes at us, different podcasts, the news, you know, Venezuela and oil and the economy and You can just drive yourself absolutely bonkers with this stuff. So I want you to stop, if you can, look at your family or those loved ones around you, and just appreciate where you’re at and what you’ve got and what you’ve been given this time of season. Yeah, you have to shovel a little snow. It’s a little bit of a pain, but… This is a magical time of year. So I like decorating the office. It puts me in the Christmas spirit. I like listening to the Christmas music. And so just it’s my way of asking you to remind yourself why. Why do we do the things that we do for our loved ones? And the answer is that Christ paid the ultimate sacrifice for us. So let’s give him a little honor and glory this season. Amen. So since last we talked, we were on in November. I had just gotten back from the Philippines. I contracted COVID on the airplane. That’s right. So when I was on the air, I thought I had allergies. And there’s the crazy part is there’s a COVID variant going around, especially in Southeast Asia. They call it the razor blade variant. So it fit me to a T. It says for the first two or three days, everybody thinks they have allergies. So a little drippy nose. You’re like, okay, my throat, yeah, it’s a little scratchy. So I started taking Zyrtec and Allegra. But then after we got off the air, it hit me that night. And I see why they call it the razor blade variant. I felt like I had swallowed a box of razor blades. Oh, geez. Jeremy, it took me out. And before I went to the Philippines, you know, I was crushing records on my Carol bike, my weightlifting. I was setting records at 59 because of all the things that we do. Of course. And you probably got through it easier than you would have had you not been doing all those things. And this thing took me out for a week and a half. But if I hadn’t, but what really got me was the jet lag. And we had talked about things that could help you because I had just gotten back from the Philippines, stave off jet lag. Well, even doing that, you know, when you’re jumping 15 time zones, it wrecked me. And when we got to the Philippines, there had been – the typhoons and so I didn’t get the sunlight like I normally would when we get there to help reset my circadian rhythm it just wrecked me and it was a quick turnaround it was only seven days so I never got a chance to really adjust before we came back to the United States now I’m in 14 hours in a tin can with germs flying everywhere and sure enough it got me it took me out for a week and a half oh geez look like you’re doing better now i feel great now my my scores are starting to come back up i’m no longer on the leaderboard right for my carol bike and my weights but i’m back in the saddle i’m feeling good again have my energy back no more cough no more sore throat um but it’s a real thing so for those of you who believe in ivermectin once i knew what i had i started on that immediately So make sure if your doctor’s not willing to give you a prescription, you need to call us at my clinic because I will give it out like candy. So our number there is 303-663-6990. That’s Castle Rock Regenerative Healthcare. 303-663-6990. If you want to be part of today’s show, give us a call, 303-477-5600. 303-477-5600. We’re going to take a break now, and then when we come back, we’re going to do that deep dive on the biomarkers. Sounds great. Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush, 560-KLZ.
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Welcome back, listeners. Dr. Scott Faulkner. This Health and Wellness Wednesday on 560 KLZ with my good friend Jeremy Sova, who is an expert in biohacking. Getting a lot of great feedback. You guys like Jeremy. You like what he’s doing. You’re like, I want to be Jeremy. I think we all want to be Jeremy when we grow up. including myself. So that’s something that we can all strive for. I just can’t dunk a basketball like Michael Jordan. So you can be like me, but I can’t be like Mike. Fair enough. So right before the break, we were talking about the biomarkers and why are those so important? Folks have heard us before, but what I’ve learned listening to John as he’s coaching me is that A lot of you folks are driving now. You’ll get in and out of the car. You’ll leave your workstation, hop in the car, go in, make dinner for the family and stuff like that. So a lot of people are hopping on, hopping off. And so many times people call the office and say, I missed this. Or my friend said, you talked about that. So if I’m repeating myself or Jeremy’s repeating himself, it’s because this stuff is that important. We actually want you to understand it and embrace it. And if you need us to repeat it, give us a call or send Charlie a text. He doesn’t mind, but you can call us at 303-477-5600. We’re happy to re-explain something that we’ve gone over. So, Jeremy, first off, what are biomarkers?
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Yeah, and I feel like I’m going to continue to beat this horse until it’s beyond dead because not a week goes by that someone doesn’t come to me and ask me a question that my answer is, we need to go back and talk about biomarkers. So biomarkers, which you docs used to call labs, you know, they go in, they check your blood, they check a certain number of things. Your doctor doesn’t check enough of them. And I think about 106, I would consider the bare minimum these days, even though I’m up to 265 myself. So basically you go in, you get your blood work done. Use a doc like yourself, a clinic that can basically give you a number of labs to look at all the things that are going on inside of your body. All the different organs, your heart, your brain, your lungs, your liver, your kidneys. and figure out what’s wrong with you, because all of us have something going on. None of us are perfect. You can strive to get better, but you need to know what’s going on before you can approach it to fix it. Just don’t take these supplements online and think that, oh, it’s the new thing, and everyone’s taking the NAD+, or everyone’s taking the glutathione. Those are good things, but you need to know, do you need them? How much of them do you need? How often do you need them? And the why. And the why do you need them? So getting your biomarkers done, I think you’re running a special right now for the holidays. Basically, it would cost thousands of dollars out of pocket if you walked into a laboratory and asked for these. And your primary care doc can’t get them for you because you need symptoms to explain for them to go through coding with the insurance company and get pre-approvals. So the idea is find out what’s going on inside your body by getting your blood work done. Start with this 100, 106 biomarkers. And then sit down with a doc like yourself and say, okay, well, these things are in range. These things are out of range. Why are they out of range? And what can I do about it? And it’s usually somewhere between $500 and $700 based on what you want to look for. But I have people contacting me all the time. And when they finally get their biomarkers done, a light bulb goes off. And all of a sudden I’m getting emails and PDFs and they’re like, what does this mean? What should I do about it? And it’s cool as a non-doctor, the more and more I learn, it’s really amazing. It’s not. coincidence that heart disease is the number one killer in the world. And I see that because most of these biomarkers that come through, people have high cholesterol, bad pattern LDL, too high of an apolipoprotein B or an ApoB. So the heart needs to be the focus first, and you have no idea what’s going on without at least looking at those biomarkers. So we’re going to continue. I We’re going to talk about the importance of it until everybody gets it.
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Correct. Because it is the foundation that the rest of your house is built on because you’ve said it and I’ve co-opted your phrase. If you don’t measure it. You can’t manage it. And you sure as hell can’t optimize it. That’s exactly right. So I get people calling me from, in fact, I have patients in Virginia now who listen to John’s show. They reach out to me. And that’s the other thing is you don’t actually have to be in Castle Rock folks, right? So long as there is a quest labs near you, you can be in Timbuktu. I’ve got a guy who just, uh, I talked to yesterday up in Cheyenne, Wyoming. I’ve got patients, um, Out to California, I got patients all the way in Virginia and everywhere in between because now they like John’s show. They’re listening to it. They’re like, hey, I like what you’re saying. You think outside of the box. You’re not my typical doc who passed me on the head and says, oh, you’re fine. See you in a year. And he spent five minutes with you and did maybe a couple of basic tests. It’s like, no, that’s crap.
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Well, telemedicine now, I mean, you don’t even really need to see the patient until you get all the information and decide whether or not you actually need to do a physical exam. Right. But you can pretty much diagnose most things just by sending them in, looking at the results. Maybe they follow up with some imaging. But telehealth is very normalized now and for good reason.
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Yes. And so, like I said, you don’t have to be in the Castle Rock area. You can be anywhere in the country because Quest Diagnostics is pretty much everywhere. So what happens is you call into the office, and again, I’ll give you the numbers, 303-663-6990. Talk to the staff. Usually it’s a free consultation, right? This is a bad business model, by the way, and you’re helping me change this. So those of you who are thinking if you’re on the fence for this for the holidays or you want to give a gift to your loved one, your spouse, you better take advantage of it because I can promise you come January 1st, the prices are going up because I can’t keep giving everything away for free. But the initial consultation, when I talk to you for that first 30 minutes, yes, I said 30 minutes, getting to know you, hearing your story is free. Then you pay the office, and then we put in a request to Quest Diagnostics. And you can be anywhere in the U.S. because I can order these biomarkers. You go into your local Quest. they draw it the results come to me about two weeks later because there’s so many biomarkers it takes quest about two weeks to process everything then we sit down again and it takes about 45 minutes to go soup to nuts and once i we do that then you have a picture of how good or bad you are and if things are let’s say you don’t have heavy metal lead mercury congratulations we don’t have to check that again anytime soon If your insulin level is okay, roger that. If your cortisol level is good, okay. But I can’t tell you how many people I’ve been picking up lately with autoimmune disorders. They didn’t have a clue. And so now we’re drilling down on their autoimmune disorders. It’s amazing how many I’ve picked up lately.
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Yeah, and it’s cool. Now we’re learning how to actually get the innate and active immune systems to get along so they don’t attack and cause autoimmune disease. So you can prevent it, and in my case, you can reverse it. So we’ll talk later about the cool ways to do that.
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Yeah, absolutely. So if you’re vacillating for thinking, well, what do I give my husband or my wife for Christmas? This is where you start, right? Break out of that mold. Finally say, enough. Let’s spend a little bit of money on our health. Because, folks, if you’re in your 40s, 50s, the clock is ticking. You’re no longer in your 20s where you can just get by on your good looks, right, and your physique, or you start to get into your 30s. I got ladies who come to me, and they’re already perimenopausal in their 30s.
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Beyond that, the physique can look absolutely picture perfect, but you pop the hood, and you’re like, well, my goodness, we got to.
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Yeah, you’re a wreck inside. That’s exactly right. So these are the sorts of things that now, and you talked about earlier how a lot of these nurse practitioners and docs are starting to break out of the mold and move into the functional medicine, regenerative medicine, lifestyle medicine. It goes by different names. But people are getting sick and tired of the traditional medical model. And so this thing is about to explode. And it’s really neat to see. And I welcome it because I’m only one man. I can only see so many people in a day. So it’s kind of nice that more people or reinforcements are coming behind me.
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Definitely, definitely. And happy holidays, everybody. Merry Christmas. If I was to give advice, let’s say I had $1,000 to spend on my spouse or a child or a parent or a sibling, I would get them the 106 biomarkers done. And I would buy them an Oura Ring. And I have nothing to do with Oura Ring as far as any hidden agendas. I’m not on their board. I don’t own any stock in the company. But I’ve been wearing this thing for almost a year now. I think all of our troops have them. A lot of companies are giving them to their employees. But it’s a really good way, and it pairs with your phone, to let you know how things are kind of going as far as the four things you can do to prevent disease, which is sleep, exercise, nutritional biochemistry, and stress and emotional health management. You pair the biomarkers with the Oura Ring. There is your launching pad. There is how you know exactly how to build out your roadmap and your dashboard to become a baby biohacker.
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Yep, that’s exactly right. So start with the biomarkers, find out what’s wrong, but then you do an adjunct like this Oura Ring. We both have ours on. It’s pretty cool to watch your sleep score, what happens to your body with exercise, your heart rate variability. It can even do a VO2 max. That’s right. And last time we talked about VO2 max and why that is so important. So why don’t you just hit VO2 max? For those who might have missed the previous podcast, what is VO2 max and why is that so important? Sure.
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So in the exercise realm, there’s two things that are extremely important for longevity. One is increasing your muscle mass. So basically resistance training, putting as much lean mass on your body as possible. The other one is your VO2 max, which is basically the amount of oxygen that your body can use at full tilt. So in that realm, I think I mentioned in the last podcast that I was doing mine the next morning. And I hadn’t done it other than just the Oura Ring version, which they say don’t do it at elevation and make sure it’s a straight line. And nowhere around here is not at elevation and a straight line. So I wanted to validate by doing the actual VO2 Max where they put the mask on, they clamped it around my head, they plugged my nose so there was nothing that could get in and out except oxygen from my lungs. And they had me on a stair climber, basically running up as hard as I could straight up a flight of stairs for 20 minutes. And I had no idea, you know, cigarette smoker for 16 years and, you know, bad habits and bad sleep. And I looked at the charts. I’m like, yeah, if I can be somewhere around 35 to 40 on the chart, that’ll give me a good place to start pushing it up. Because the higher that number gets and the older you get, the longer you’re going to live, both health span. which is the quality of your life and lifespan, which is actually the length of your life in chronological years. And mine was 49.3. And it blew me away because I’ve only been really hitting this biohacking stuff really hard for almost two years now. And that number is at the very top of optimal for my age group. And I had more in the tank. So when I go back in three months to do it again, I’m going to break 50. And my new goal is 55. And that will put me in like the 0.03 percentile of human beings in VO2 max on Earth. Yeah. So that goes to show that you can reverse a lot of bad habits if you do the right things. Because imagine you put like a marathon runner that’s been healthy their entire lives through this entire biomarker journey. They’re going to be breaking the machine and smashing records that nobody thought were possible. So VO2 max and muscle, extremely important. And I’m so excited that I continue to blow my own mind on this journey with all the things that we’re doing together.
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So to be clear, you were not a professional athlete before all this happened.
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No, I was a golfer, which doesn’t really push the heart very much at all. I did some hiking here and there, some skiing, you know, downhill, but no, never a runner, never pushing, never rowing machine. You know, with all the back injuries and the leg injury, I’m limited in what I can do and definitely low impact. But we pushed it to the limit and it was 49.3. And how old are you now?
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47. 47. Okay. The reason why I ask these questions is for our listeners, because there’s a lot of folks here in the Colorado area and listening to us that are in your shoes. I’m not a professional athlete. I don’t carry my mountain bike up Manitou Springs, the incline, and then ride down. Those guys just drive me nuts. They carry their bikes up. It’s like, holy cow. You’re not special forces. Nope. You don’t get up at 3 o’clock in the morning and run 15 miles just for fun.
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Correct.
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You used to smoke. You were overweight. You did bad things to your body.
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Yep.
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So it’s not too late to reverse the damage that was done and actually start to optimize your body.
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That’s right. If you’re doing the right things, you’ve got to put the right fuel in, get the right sleep, do the right exercise, use the right modalities at a clinic like your own. It’s a complete system of things that have to come together to get to these goals. There’s no magic bullet. You can’t say, oh, I’m just going to go run up and down Manitou Springs and my VO2 max is going to be up there. I’m eating 42 different things a day, whether it’s injection, powder, liquid, nasal, and using the hyperbaric chamber, and we’re doing the plasmapheresis, and we’re getting the stem cells, we’re using the ozone, we’re using the red light, I’m using the glutathione, I’m using the NADD+, precursors. So all these things together is what was allowing me It is allowing me to hit these goals. Yeah, that’s exactly right.
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Unfortunately, we’ve got to take another break. When we come back, we’ll talk more about this and the big C word, cancer. And what can we do about that? We get a lot of questions from listeners. Hey, can we test me? What does that look like? What does it cost? Because I’m deathly afraid of it or I have a family history of it. So when we come back, let’s talk about the C word.
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Great.
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So Dr. Scott Faulkner with Jeremy Sova filling in for John Rush 560 KLZ. We’ll be right back.
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Welcome back listeners. Dr. Scott filling in for John Rush, 560 KLZ on this Health and Wellness Wednesdays. Want to be part of the show? Our number is 303-477-5600. 303-477-5600. Be careful on your drive home, please. Jeremy, we were talking before the break about the C word, cancer. A lot of folks are Deathly afraid of it, whether they have a family history or not.
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And they should be. Yeah. Because lately we’re seeing a lot more younger men and women, 30s and 40s, that are popping up with cancer earlier than before. And nastier, the turbo cancers and stuff. That’s right. Because of COVID. So we can talk about all the different reasons why, but I’d rather jump right to the solution-oriented side of things and say, what the hell can we do about it? So, I’ve got some cancer in my family. We’ve done a really good job of biohacking this stuff early, getting it into remission, making sure we don’t have to remove any organs. And what we’re finding now, and it’s a little bit pricier, but it’s called, I think it’s Cancer Check Labs. Check Cancer Labs. Or Check Cancer Labs is the one that I used last time. And the difference between this and the gallery test, which we’ve been using… is this actually detects the circulating tumor cells in the blood. And I’m not a doctor, a biologist, or a scientist, but to me it means that if these cells are starting to circulate and they’re going to come together, form a tumor, and then over time that tumor is going to grow, and if you don’t catch it, it’s going to metastasize into other areas, and the further it gets, the harder it is to prevent. That’s right. It leads to stage 4 cancer, which is a really bad thing. So if you get these circulating tumor cells looked at, And you have any, and it looks at most organ systems in most types of cancer. I think it covers over 95% of them. And then all of a sudden you can say, oh, because early detection here, folks, is by far the most important thing. Don’t be afraid of what you’re going to find. Don’t be afraid of the doctor. I have friends and family members that have been, haven’t been to the doc in years. But nowadays, in 2025, with the immunotherapies and the different treatments, And the AI and the science, if you catch this stuff early, cells, stage 0, stage 1, stage 2, you can probably get to a point where you can remove it and have a very good quality of life for decades versus catching something in a stage 4 and your mortality rate is… is way too high and your chances of making it to five years, et cetera, which we all dealt with our entire lives, losing loved ones. So if you, it’s similar to the biomarker discussion, right? If you’re looking for it and you can find it, you can do something about it. And you have a lot of different ways, too, that are outside of the traditional medicine 2.0 industrial complex that can eradicate tumors even at the stage 3 and 4 level. But we want to try to keep them from getting there first. That’s right. But know that if you do get to that point, give Dr. Faulkner a call, and he’s got some options and some clinical trials going on right now.
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That’s exactly right. So you hit the nail on the head. Early detection is key. So when we can catch things when they’re in its infancy, Because nobody wants cancer, but nobody has Superman x-ray vision. I can’t just look at you and say, oh, by the way, you have a tumor in your kidney or you have something in your lung. Or like my friend I was talking to you about, the valedictorian of Harvard, his class got colon cancer. And we were in our 20s. He died before he was 30 years old.
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Yeah, I just lost a musician to colon cancer. I think he was 40. And it was already stage four way too late. And the colon is the easiest one to find, right? You go in, you get a colonoscopy. If they see a polyp, they’ll remove it. And that polyp over seven years can turn into cancer. But if you don’t look and see the polyp turns into cancer. So I know they moved it from 50 to 45. I think they should move it to 35, you know, personally. But I had my first one at 35. Two polyps removed. We’re not cancerous. had another one at 45 because there was polyps and they found one that was precancerous so had i not had it removed fast forward seven years 52 years old i’m gonna start to have colon cancer you know so this early detection stuff is important and i’ve since fixed a lot of things to prevent those polyps from growing yeah um but yeah it’s it’s a shame that people aren’t taking a look earlier yeah and this is part of the the problem with the medical establishment
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is they create quote-unquote guidelines for the masses, right? And they say, well, if we were to screen everybody in their 30s, then geez, look at how much money it’s going to cost the system. So in a sense, it’s a scarcity mentality. I don’t know if you know who Garrett Gunderson is. I’ve heard the name. So he’s a comedian, but he’s also a financial guru type person. Okay. And so he wrote a couple of books. The first one is Killing Sacred Cows 2.0. I recommend everybody read Killing Sacred Cows 2.0. And the other one is What Would the Rockefellers Do?, So he’s big on whole life insurance policies to create generational wealth for your family. But in Killing Sacred Cows, he literally takes a lot of these myths and slays them. Like, okay, if you take your money and you invest it in mutual funds over 30 years, on average, the market has returned this. And so therefore in 30 years, you’re hoping and praying that the market’s gone up and then you’re going to retire with, you know, $5 million in the bank. Well, the reality is one downturn, right? And over those 30 years and you don’t have squat. Yeah. Especially if it’s near the time that you want to pull it out. Yes. So if you take that same analogy in the medicine, it’s like, okay, yes, you get the best bang for your buck insurance bucks. If we delay screening to 45, okay. But what about those people in their 30s, especially now after COVID and we’re seeing cancers, nasty cancers at a younger age? And the way I look at it is you’re my patient. I don’t care about the masses. I mean, this sounds kind of cruel, but when I have somebody in front of me, you’re my sole focus. I do what is right for you. And if you’re telling me my sister had colon cancer or my dad had colon cancer and I’m scared, you know what? We’re going to be testing you. I’m going to either give you peace of mind or I’m going to find something that we can take care of right now. I don’t care about statistics and the whole industry. And let’s face it, the insurance industry, especially after Obamacare, they have been making billions off the backs of Americans. That’s right. And now it’s falling apart. Obamacare that they promised, oh, we’ll find out what’s in it after we pass it. Oh, and it’ll save everybody money. Well, now the chickens are coming home to roost.
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Yeah, the subsidies are now expired, so the price is skyrocketing. The care is getting worse. It’s awful. And the only thing I can say to everybody listening is you are responsible for your own health and the outcomes. Not your insurance company, not your primary care physician, not the PA when you don’t even get to see the doctor. You need to own it and do what’s right for yourself. And if you invest… that budget to figure it out. I’m not talking about spending on fixing it or optimizing it, but if you don’t pony up to figure out what’s going on with your own body, that’s on you.
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That’s right. At this point. Yeah. And then when it falls apart and then you come to me, it’s like, you know how heavy of a lift that is where, and that’s what I saw in the ICU is I would take care of people who are now crashing and burning. And I’d ask the question, it’s like, where was your doctor? Why didn’t you have this conversation five, 10 years ago? And I would get the same answer every single time. Well, I would go to the doctor if somebody did. He would give me five minutes or she would give me five minutes. They’re always looking at their watch. Their hand is on the doorknob. They’re looking at their computer screen. And they’re like, if you had a second question, it’s like, I don’t have time for that. Make another appointment. Pat you on the head and out the door you go. Right.
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And what’s more ironic is the earlier you catch it, the cheaper it is to fix it. Well, exactly. But if I’m coming to you with stage four cancer, I know you can probably eradicate it, but it would have been a lot better for me to come to you with circulating tumor cells and get rid of the forming tumor in the first place. In the first place. Because what we’re talking about here is not covered by insurance. And as much as I hope and pray that it will be in the near future, it’s going to be a long ways out because the money machine is too big, too hungry. So you’ve got to figure out your own way to budget your own health and then make the necessary lifestyle changes. Make sure you’re taking care of the sleep and the exercise and the food and the meditations and all that. But medically, you need to know what’s going on and budget for it.
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That’s exactly right. That’s great advice. So I couldn’t have said it any better. So if you’re again, I know we’re preaching to the choir because John’s audience is a very intelligent. They’re they’re the cutting edge. They get it. And so I guess I’m sort of preaching to the choir. But somebody has to preach to the choir. Right. And what I’m finding is you get those folks on board and then they tell their loved ones or their family members Christmas is coming up. Everybody’s going to be gathering together just like Thanksgiving. And I got a lot of phone calls the last few days from people said I had Thanksgiving with everybody. X, they come and see you and I cannot believe the transformation. They’re losing weight. They’re feeling great. They have power. They have energy. Their mind is thinking clearer. I want what Joe Blow has. Can you do the same thing for me? And so it’s starting to snowball outside of John’s audience who you guys are the tip of the spear. You get it. You understand. Okay, I’ve got to pony up a little money. I don’t believe in the medical establishment. And now it’s starting to trickle out to the masses.
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When you see the results, right, a little bit of jealousy starts to set in. You’re like, well, wait a minute. I can do this too. And to me, it’s amazing. how long it takes for it to click for some people. But then I think back to myself and it took me a while to figure all this out as well. So you got to realize that it is a process in a journey, but it’s got to start someplace.
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But initially you didn’t have a me to help you with that. So folks, you, you, you’re cutting to the front of the line. You get me and you get Jeremy and we’re giving you the blueprint. We’re telling you, this is what you need to do. Now, it’s up to you to pull the trigger and say, you know what? Today is the day. You’re right. I’m done. Let’s start taking care of my health for the rest of my life.
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That’s right. And it’s amazing when you start feeling better how much more attention you give that particular segment of your life that you overlooked for four or five decades.
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Yep. So we’re going to take another break. When we come back, we need to talk about mitochondria again. We’ve talked about it before. Those of you who took high school biology, you remember the instructor saying mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell. So we’re going to explain why it’s so important and what are the things that you can do to make your mitochondria as powerful as possible. So we’ll talk about that when we come back. Dr. Scott Faulkner filling in for John Rush, Health and Wellness Wednesdays. We’ll be right back.
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Welcome back, listeners. Dr. Scott and Jeremy Sova, expert biohacker on this Health and Wellness Wednesdays. Hopefully you guys are staying warm. Staying safe out there on the roads. If you are driving, if you’re home, turn on the fireplace and snuggle up.
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Yeah, I can say the cold plunge in the cryo is not as fun on days like today, I learned. Yes. As much as it is in the summertime. Well, especially since the heat went out in your house. Yeah, no hot water. So at least I knew how to take a freezing cold shower with no problem. But my wife and son were miserable.
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I’ll bet. so before the break we said we teased that we were going to talk about mitochondria why is mitochondria so important what can we do can we even measure this this little thing so again back to high school biology remember when the instructor either he or she drew a big circle on the board in my days it was chalk nowadays i don’t know what they use right a dry erase marker whatever And they said, okay, and they drew a circle with a few things in the middle and said, that’s the nucleus of the cell. And then they went over to the right and drew a little oval with some squigglies and said, that’s the mitochondria. That is the powerhouse of the cell. That’s what makes ATP, adenosine triphosphate. So your cells have to use ATP for energy. And so – There is a process for your body to go from ADP, adenosine diphosphate, to adenosine triphosphate, the fuel that it can burn. Think of an octane in your gas tank. Gotcha. Okay. So there is a series of steps called the Krebs cycle. And very important, you can’t skip any of the steps. And so you need certain, I say things, so vitamins, minerals to make this process work. That’s right. Okay. And so when somebody sees me and they’re losing a pep in their step, first thing I do is we need to optimize your mitochondria. So I’m going to talk about those certain supplements that we need because, let’s face it, the nutritional value of our food in America sucks. Everything is ultra-processed. They take everything that’s good out, and you’ve got nothing but crap. That’s right. Charlie, can I say crap? Okay, Charlie’s nodding his head. I’m good. So you have to supplement because I remember as a medical student, I asked the instructor one day, I said, what about supplements? Do we need to take supplements? And his answer wrecked me and the rest of my class. He said, if you eat a well-balanced diet, there is no need to take supplements. All you’re doing is making expensive urine. That is the worst advice that he could have ever given me. and my classmates, because that was the advice I was giving patients for years and years. Talk about ignorance. Correct. So now we know that advice is wrong, but it’s what you said at the very beginning is you better know what you’re taking and why you’re taking it. That’s right. Okay. So yes, some of those things that help drive your, uh, Krebs cycle are things like resveratrol. Yes. The stuff that’s in purple grapes, right? L carnitine, alpha lipoic acid, um,
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Beta carotene.
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Beta carotene. CoQ10. CoQ10 is a big one.
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Vitamin K2. And then your NAD+. Vitamin A, vitamin B, vitamin D, vitamin E. Right.
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And so when people come into the office, I actually have a QR code. There’s an article written by a functional medicine doctor on mitochondria. It’s the best article I’ve seen to where even a layperson can get it. You don’t have to be an M.D., And they’re like, oh, this is why you’re telling me to do what I do. And just doing that alone, most people feel such a huge improvement in their power and their fatigue that they’re like, oh, my gosh, where has this been? It’s like, well, finally somebody told you how to fix part of what’s broken. And other parts are hormones and things like that. But you take it to another step. So what is your other step?
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So I stumbled into it, ironically. So I used to have rheumatoid arthritis. We’ve talked about how I’ve eradicated it here. And my rheumatologist at the time had told me to take high doses of vitamin K2. So I went on the internet and I looked up vitamin K2 and where I could buy it. How much should I take? I have no idea. So I went to my doctor and I’m like, hey, on my next set of labs, I would like you to check my vitamin K2. So he sent in the nurse and she’s looking at the sheet and she leaves and goes back, talks to the doc and he comes in and he’s like, well, we can’t check for vitamin K2 in your blood. I’m like, well, how can we check for it? And he’s like, I’ll get back to you. And then about a week later, and this is medicine 2.0, right? And he’s like, well, we need to check your Krebs cycle and look at the mitochondrial cell. And how we do that is looking intracellularly, so inside the cell. And there’s a test we can do that. It’s from spectra cell laboratories. And I’m like, all right, well, what does that cost? And I think it was like four or 500 bucks. And I said, all right, well, let’s do it. And this was about two years ago, the first time. And so they do, they take your blood and they send it to this laboratory and they give you this like 15 page PDF breakout. of all the different vitamins and minerals, where you’re deficient, where you’re sufficient, where you’re marginal, and how they all break down. And they actually graph that Krebs cycle and show the ATP and show the actual health of the cell. And there’s green, yellow, and red. You know, you don’t want yellow or red. And most of mine were red. I’m like, well, this sucks. Yeah. My mitochondria is not very good, apparently. And then I started to look even closer. I’m like, oh, well, I need high doses of beta carotene. I need more doses of CoQ10. I need a lot of vitamin B6. Which one’s niacin? Vitamin B3?
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Yeah, because pyridoxine and dexpanthenol is B5 and 6.
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So then I had to start taking niacin and getting the sweats and all this stuff and figured out how to manage that.
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Oh, yeah, the flushing.
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And then really ramped up all the different minerals and vitamins that I needed. And then I started using your clinic and making the custom IV bags with the stuff that was in the yellow and the red column. So all of a sudden, I’m like, all right, well, I’ll do this for a year, and then I’ll go pay the $500 and take another look at the cell and see what happened. Well, in the meantime, I was also doing the other things to power the mitochondria, like taking methylene blue, using your red light bed four days a week, knocking down all the inflammation. So I got the test back a year later, and everything’s in the green and maybe one or two things that are yellow. So I was able to supplement for deficiency. to build out that Krebs cycle and make the mitochondrial cell more powerful. And now I can optimize it. So I give myself the ability to get to a VO2 max of 49.3. That’s it. So I kind of stumbled upon it in a roundabout way, but I wanted to share that story because it’s funny how organically that took place. And now it’s one of the main things in my dashboard is how powerful is my mitochondria and how can I continue to push that stronger and stronger, get that nuclear power plant firing on all cylinders.
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Right.
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Because one of the amazing things is that we didn’t mention this. I had Reagan, one of my employees on in the summertime, and we were talking about this. And in a cell, there’s not just a mitochondria. In a basic cell, there’s 1,100 mitochondria. In a neuron, a brain cell, there’s 2,500 mitochondria. So if they’re not optimized, imagine 2,500 in one cell, multiply that by billions. And that’s why people have fatigue, brain fog. They’re aging. They’re not feeling well. They don’t exercise like they used to. They don’t recover like they used to. So this is the why. But it goes back to what you said at the very beginning. If we don’t measure it, we can’t manage it. And we sure as hell can’t optimize it.
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Bingo.
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So more good advice for those of you who were on the fence to just kind of get off the fence. Give us a call at Castle Rock Regenerative Health Care at 303-663-6990. I hear the music. We’re going to break here for the top of the hour. We’ll be right back. And we’re going to talk a lot about stem cells and what is coming down the pike in the second hour. Dr. Scotty Faulkner, the lane for John Rush. We’ll be right back.
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Rich guy.
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Rich guy.
